Can words kill? Woman who sent her boyfriend text messages urging him to kill himself when they were both teenagers was convicted Friday of involuntary manslaughter.

Michelle Carter was found guilty for causing the death of Conrad Roy III, who intentionally filled his truck with carbon monoxide in a Fairhaven, Massachusetts, store parking lot in July 2014.

The judge focused the ruling on three words Carter said to the 18-year-old Roy after he climbed out of his truck as it was filling with CO2 telling her that he was scared.

“Get back in,” Carter told Roy.

According to the judge, those words constituted “wanton and reckless conduct.”

He said Carter, then 17, had a duty to call someone for help when she knew Roy was attempting suicide. Yet she did not call Roy’s family or the police.

Carter and Roy met in Florida in 2012 while they were both on vacation with their families. Their relationship consisted mainly of texting and other electronic communications. The two only met in person a few times.

The teens both struggled with depression and Roy was reportedly prescribed the psychotropic drug, Celexa (citalopram). Carter had also been treated for anorexia, and Roy had made earlier suicide attempts.

“You can’t think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don’t get why you aren’t,” Carter wrote to Roy the day of his suicide.

“I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you’re ready … just do it babe,” she wrote in another text that day.

The judge believes that it was not the coercive behavior that caused Roy’s death, it was Carter’s insistence that he get back in the truck.

The judge ruled that Carter can stay free on bail but has to be sure not to make any contact with Roy’s family or leave the state.

Carter’s lawyer, Joseph Cataldo, argued that Roy was determined to kill himself and nothing Carter could do would change that. He said that Carter had initially tried to talk Roy out of it and urged him to get professional help. Yet eventually, after her attempts at helping him failed, she eventually went along with his plan.

The judge did not take into account in his verdict Roy’s previous suicide attempts.

Roy’s family is pleased with the conviction.

Ariana Marisolis a contributing staff writer for REALfarmacy.com. She is an avid nature enthusiast, gardener, photographer, writer, hiker, dreamer, and lover of all things sustainable, wild, and free. Ariana strives to bring people closer to their true source, Mother Nature. She graduated The Evergreen State College with an undergraduate degree focusing on Sustainable Design and Environmental Science.